$OpenBSD: patch-ieee-utils_read_c,v 1.2 2009/06/01 13:37:03 benoit Exp $
--- ieee-utils/read.c.orig	Wed Nov 19 10:13:46 2008
+++ ieee-utils/read.c	Mon Jun  1 15:27:59 2009
@@ -41,14 +41,12 @@ gsl_ieee_read_mode_string (const char * description, 
   int rounding_count = 0 ;
   int exception_count = 0 ;
 
-  start = (char *) malloc(strlen(description) + 1) ;
+  start = strdup(description) ;
 
   if (start == 0) 
     {
       GSL_ERROR ("no memory to parse mode string", GSL_ENOMEM) ;
     }
-
-  strcpy (start, description) ;
 
   p = start ;
 
